Can't make my new computer working help!

[Samurai]

have you tried using a different hard drive?

[leonidas]

set them all to CD only then change back after boot

It does not change anything

[Samurai]

see above post regarding hdd

[leonidas]

have you tried using a different hard drive?

The one I'm using is new, I don't think it could be broken, how could I have damaged it?

I've got a very old 4 gb one, I'm gonna try it now.

[Samurai]

worth a shot at the very least.

[clocker]

Check the jumpers on your HDD.
Check the connections (power and IDE).

UNplug the floppy and optical drives.
If it will go beyond the verifying stage and give you the message " invalid system disk or OS cannot be found" then reconnect the CD drive and try again.

[RPerry]

just out of curiosity, are you using a pci ata card for the HD ?
My girlfriend bought a new asus mb last month and had problem like this, and it only corrected when she plugged the hd into the ide slot...

[leonidas]

Damn !! I've put this very old hard disk, with windows98 on it, and windows98 started, now it's recongnizing the new material on the computer

[clocker]

Aha!
So your machine prefers Win 98, eh?

Don't fight it, Luke.

[leonidas]

just out of curiosity, are you using a pci ata card for the HD ?
My girlfriend bought a new asus mb last month and had problem like this, and it only corrected when she plugged the hd into the ide slot...

What do you call a pci ata card ?


know it's strange because win 98 (the splashscrenn) starts, and I've got lots of new materiel which needs to be recognize, but I still can't install xp, it happen the same as before when I put the xp cds on the drives (with both xps).